A beloved figure in the Rochester Latin music community, Victor Antonetti Sr., died Friday at the age of 77.
Antonetti was born in Puerto Rico and moved to Rochester in the 1950s. He later founded Orquesta Antonetti, a band that soon became a big part of the burgeoning Salsa music scene.
“He brought, you know, that essence, that desire of Salsa into the Rochester area, and introduced, in a lot of ways, Salsa music to non-Hispanics,” said Hector Arguinzoni, a local Salsa singer and musician who worked with Antonetti for years, and a longtime DJ on Poder radio in Rochester…